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18th of April 2013

SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture in collaboration with Rambøll conducted a survey on traceability of food products in Norway. The survey was conducted for Landbruks- Og Matdepartementet to analyze the improvement in the traceability of food products following the eSporing project. For more information contact, Eskil Forås

1st of March 2013

A scientific article titled The TraceFood Framework – Principles and guidelines for implementing traceability in food value chains was published in the Journal of Food Engineering. For details, contact Dr. Maitri Thakur

30th of April 2012

Dr. Maitri Thakur gave an invited talk on the "Science of Traceability" at 103rd AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo in Long Beach, California. Click here to download the presentation.

22nd of November 2011

An international conference on the Application of EPCIS in food supply chain management was organized by SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture in Oslo on 16th November, 2011. The aim of this conference was to discuss the use of EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) for food traceability.

14th of March 2011

Due to increasing amount of spam we have been forced to close automatic registration of new users. If you wish to contribute to the wiki please send us a mail and we will create a user account for you.

26th of March 2010

The TraceCore page is updated with the latest XML version (2.2) and the TraceCore abstract model. Several updates are happening in the MainSafeTrace project.

14th of October 2009

As the Trace project is drawing to a close in december this year, we are happy to report that several new projects are using the TraceFood Wiki as dissemination platform, enabling this site to live on long after Trace is concluded. Recently added projects are: eTrace, MainSafeTrace, and Scientific network within sustainable fishing.

The TraceFood Wiki is open for anyone to comment and edit! Built on the TraceFood Framework we still remain true to our main objective: to make traceability through a whole supply chain possible, preferably in electronic form. The goal is to ensure that; food items and processes are identified in a uniform way, that a common electronic language is available for interchange of traceability information, and that a common Good Traceability Practice underlie all implementations.

In order to achieve this, we have created the TraceFood Wiki. We provide this wiki both as a help for people that wants to implement traceability in their business, but also as an arena where people can come together and discuss their different views and experiences on traceability. Our work has laid the foundation, but to move forward we need input from all communities working with traceability. With your help, TraceFood will grow to the international standard we hope it will one day become, and contain the world's leading best practices on food traceability!

The initial work of the framework was done in the EU projects TraceFish and SeafoodPlus funded by the European Commission under the fifth and sixth framework programmes. Currently, the TraceFood Framework and the TraceFood Wiki is being funded and developed through the EU funded project TRACE. Several other international projects and initiatives also support the framework. Guidelines and standards have been, and are being developed for numerous food sectors, including seafood, mineral water, honey, chicken, cereal and meat.

Here are some navigation tips for new and old users!

Are you new to traceability, and want to know more about it? Perhaps you want to know what traceability can do for your business?

• Traceability is the section to go for all your overview needs.

Have you decided to go into traceability and are unsure if you want to use TraceFood?

• Fundamentals will provide you with our underlying principles and basic definitions.

You have decided to implement traceability, and use TraceFood? Great! But you are unsure of how it should be done?

• Good Traceability Practice will provide you with experiences from many combined case studies and examples of best practice from the industry.

You are in the process of implementing traceability and you want to learn how to share this information with your business partners?

• Tools contains information about concrete methods and electronic languages for exchange of information.

Get answers to some of your questions at the TraceFood FAQ!